The first-ever guide to these 3 incredible countries is back for it's 2nd edition. Fully revised and updated to provide you everything you need to know, whether you want to learn Spanish in Quito; follow in Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos islands; trek the alternative Inca Trail; hurtle down the most dangerous road in the world or drive across the world's largest salt lake. Take off and discover something out of the ordinary.
One could say travel runs in Geoff's family. A descendant of the hardy souls who founded much of New England, eastern Canada and further afield (French Guiana, anyone?), Geoff spent his formative years alternating between Portugal's relentlessly sunny Algarve coast and Massachusetts' occasionally sunny North Shore.
Between incessant trips abroad, Geoff studied Japanese at Harvard and technology transfer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He switched gears after university, walking a fine line between jaunts in global finance and financing global jaunts, before deciding upon the latter as an infinitely preferable vocation.
Considered one of the world's leading experts on the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos, his writings, photography, and Web site have won international acclaim.
He has written and lectured extensively on Mexico and especially Bolivia, and in particular on the remote and beautiful Chiquitania.
Author or co-author of several best-selling travel guides and regional histories, his works have been translated into 12 languages. His articles and photographs have appeared in some of the world's best-known magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
His most recent guides, Footprint's Guadalajara & Pacific (1st ed.) and Mexico (2nd ed.) were published in Europe and North America in 2011 and 2010 respectively. Other recent titles include the 3rd and 4th editions of Footprint's Bolivia and the 1st and 2nd of Peru Bolivia & Ecuador. He also is a long-time specialist contributor to Footprint's venerable South American Handbook. In addition to his Footprint titles, Geoff has been a South American specialist contributor to Dorling-Kindersley travel titles, including the widely acclaimed The Road Less Travelled and Where to Go and When in the Americas.
When Stateside, Geoff works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the director of Global Fellowship Programmes at the Legatum Institute for Development & Entrepreneurship. He also consults with a broad array of educational, religious and other NGOs in Latin America, developing and promoting involvement in sustainable development initiatives, in particular through cultural tourism and technology transfer as catalysts for development.
Geoff was recently a visiting professor and executive director of international affairs at Mexico's prestigious Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He still makes an annual pilgrimage to Mt. Desert Island, where his family has summered off and on since discovering the island for France in 1604.
For more information on Geoff's writings on Bolivia, see his Web site: www.chiquitania.com.
